my world in moments

moonrise

The full moon carries a special fascination and being up for a technical challenge I thought I’d try and see just how good an image I could get from a 200mm lens. Actually it’s not quite full having just begun waning but I’m still happy with the result. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Full’, 1/400s f/7.1 ISO100 […]

Sometime ‘almost’ really is good enough. When the moon is almost full the shadowed edge is has structure and detail of craters that is lost on a full moon. When the the sky is completely clear of cloud there is nothing to put context around an otherwise bright object in a black sky. This almost […]

Shrouded behind veils of patchy cloud an impossible challenge is to capture the details of the lunar surface as well as the intricate details of wispy cloud. In the end a compromise was to over expose the moon, to under expose the clouds and do my best to get detail in both. Photo: Robert Rath, […]